Lol! fenchurch, hotblack, zaphod....I see your a fan of the Hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy

Your missing FordPrefect!

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I had a prefect once; it was a laptop I had long ago.

Oh, and I don't actually have an iMac, Mac Pro, or XServe just lying around-- those three are Linux boxes and, since I wasn't too keen about them showing up with the BSOD icon, I made avahi send out the appropriate _device-info keys over Bonjour.

Not that I would be terribly opposed to having an iMac, Mac Pro, and/or XServe just lying around, of course...

Oh, and I don't actually have an iMac, Mac Pro, or XServe just lying around-- those three are Linux boxes and, since I wasn't too keen about them showing up with the BSOD icon, I made avahi send out the appropriate _device-info keys over Bonjour.

Not that I would be terribly opposed to having an iMac, Mac Pro, and/or XServe just lying around, of course...

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I wouldn't name your server hotblack....unless it is truly on death support .

I wouldn't name your server hotblack....unless it is truly on death support .

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It kinda is. It's an old IBM Netvista that is, well, black. It uses some sort of custom-form-factor power supply, however, and since I wasn't really keen on the idea of ponying up $110 for a new power supply, I instead took a SPX-style power supply and shortened the case to make it fit in the space where I would have the CD drive (were I the sort of person who used CD drives for more than OS installs.) One consequence of this is that the airflow is a bit different now, so the machine runs a little hotter. I'm not too sure how much hotter (no temperature sensors), though it's been working fine like this for the past year. I try not to do anything too CPU-intensive for long periods of time, just in case.

Has anyone successfully played a movie on the client using Remote Disc? I tried to do just that today - loaded a movie in my iMac to play on my MacBook Pro - but no joy. I was able to read from both a CD and a DVD, however, but have yet to attempt a write test.

How far have any of you gotten thus far? Also, for those of you who have the MacBook Air, can you play a movie on the Air via Remote Disc on a 2nd Mac? I'm interested in finding the limits of Remote Disc.

I know this is an old thread, but I just wanted to say that I got a refurbished Nvidia Mac mini and it had remote disc enabled by default. It can see discs I put in my iMac and MacBook. I have no idea why this is since I have a SuperDrive in it already. Still cool if not very useful to me.

how do i get rid of the remote disk
it stays on my mac even though dvd/cd sharing is turned off

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I also hate to resurrect a dead thread, but I'd like to know this too. I had an iMac that had a dead optical drive, enabled this to serve as a stopgap measure, and when I did a Mac-to-Mac transfer with my new computer, it came along for the ride. I tried swapping 'false' for 'true' and entering the two Terminal commands to no avail. And strangely enough, I have the little arrow in the upper right corner on the iMac but not on my MacBookPro, when it has the Terminal commands inputted to enable sharing. I've also cycled sharing on and off and rebooted in between on both machines, and I still have it only on the iMac and not on the MacBookPro.

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